(CONROY, Pat)

The Sphinx 1967

Small folio. Leatherette embossed in blue and silver. Some wear to the rear board, else near fine. Citadel yearbook for author Pat Conroy's Senior year. Conroy is pictured in at least eight, and we suspect more, photographs in the yearbook, including an individual Senior Class picture, with the basketball team, and as "Best Senior Private," presumably acknowledging his reluctance or inability to be promoted. In that picture, Conroy is struggling to keep a straight face whilst receiving a thorough dressing down by former Commandant of Cadets Lt. Colonel T.N. Courvoisie, i.e. "The Boo," who was the subject of his first, privately printed book, also called The Boo. A cropped version of this photo served as the jacket art for that title, and the full photo served as the jacket art for the re-issue published by the Old New York Book Shop Press in 1996.

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